Correspondence Jonas Mekas - J.L Guerin (2011)★ 7.4/10

“All this business of reality, poetry… Well, in truth what I’m doing is I’m just filming, not even filming, I’m taping, videotaping, moments of life around me… Friends, my own life, details that I have a need to tape for whatever reason. I do not know what makes me do it, but I have to do it. I just have to do it. […] The mystery remains: why I tape what I tape? Why I tape those 15 seconds or one minute or two minutes and why not the rest of the day? So that’s the beauty of life. That we keep going and no explanations are really needed. Explanations… it’s only part of the game.”